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Author Reddy, Maureen T.

Title Crossing the color line : race, parenting, and culture / Maureen T. Reddy
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 193 pages)
Series Black women writers series.
Contents Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. On Lines and Bridges -- 2. Starting Out -- 3. "Why Do White People Have Vaginas?" -- 4. "One Drop of Black Blood" -- 5. The Fourth R -- 6. Mothers, Daughters, Sisters, Comrades -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "Why do white people have vaginas?" asks Maureen Reddy's two-year-old son. "Why do boys have curly hair?" These are the questions Reddy grapples with on her journey, as a white mother of black children, toward an internalized understanding of race - particularly whiteness - and of racism. Moving from memoir to race theory, to literary analysis, to interviews with friends, Reddy places this personal journey in a broad cultural context. Reddy writes as a racial "insider" who stands outside accepted racial arrangements, a position that can afford unique insight into the many contradictions of those arrangements. She addresses attempts to cross the color line that divides blacks and whites; the meeting points of whiteness and blackness; the politics of feminism and anti-racism; loving blackness; mothering black children; racism in schools; and relationships among black and white women. Our culture is permeated by color. And whether we can sort out racial divisions will, Reddy feels, determine whether we survive as a society
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-189) and index
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Subject Racially mixed children -- United States -- Case studies
Mothers of racially mixed children.
Parents of racially mixed children.
Parent and child -- United States
Racism -- United States
Parent and child.
Families.
Nuclear families.
Prejudices.
Parent-Child Relations
Race Relations
Family
Prejudice
Nuclear Family
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Prejudices
Nuclear families
Families
Mothers of racially mixed children
Parent and child
Parents of racially mixed children
Racially mixed children
Racism
Rassenfrage
Interethnische Ehe
Kind
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
USA
Genre/Form Case studies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585002673
9780585002675